Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of women [unc] " in BNC.

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1 The majority of women 's organisations , even those representing employed women , have never ( until very recently ) made family allowances one of their major preoccupations , although equal pay has ( and still is ) an issue of vital concern .
2 Between 1908 and 1948 several groups negotiated the needs of older people , among them the National Conference on Old Age Pensions ( NCOAP ) , the National Spinsters ' Pensions Association ( which played an important role in the reduction of women 's pension age from 65 to 60 ) , the National Federation of Old Age Pensions Associations ( NFOAPA ) , and the National Old People 's Welfare Committee , established by voluntary groups during the Second World War .
3 After all , is n't that a rejection of the complexity of women 's oppression ?
4 It will encompass issues of the force men use against women , gender relations in the formal political arena , and the variety of women 's resistance to their subordination .
5 Moreover , the stereotype of women 's behaviour stresses the differences between ‘ all women ’ and ‘ all men ’ at the expense of exploring differences among women , or even the possibility that factors other than gender itself may be important in explaining supposed differences .
6 Mary Daly 's indictment of male power and brutality similarly allows little space for a consideration of the patterns of women 's lives , or the strengths and capacities that these might have enabled them to develop .
7 Sanjukta Gupta Gombrich shows how at the heart of women 's place within Hinduism , lies a basic paradox .
8 The pathology of women 's bodies is a source of great mystery and unease to Vic .
9 War is pre-eminently an outrage on motherhood and all that motherhood means ; the destruction of life and the breaking-up of homes is the undoing of women 's work as life-givers and home-makers .
10 In the case of women 's speech it goes back to antiquity , and its legacy has proved hard to get rid of .
11 Textiles are admirably suited to the dictates of fashion , which guarantees continuous demand ( 1983 : 34–99 ) , and the same period saw the rise of women 's fashion magazines ( 1983 : 47 ) .
12 The second , the Fawcett Award , was in recognition of an outstanding achievement in the field of women 's education and marked the impact of the ‘ Women in IT ’ programme aimed at returning unemployed and largely academically unqualified women to employment in the expanding field of Information Technology .
13 The Department offers major provision in the field of women 's education .
14 These fields , in which there has been a growing attempt to eradicate sex inequality , still show the persistence of women 's domestic commitments as a barrier to equality .
15 Later , after plotting further distribution maps , this interesting conglomerate was expanded to include the swastika design , the tattooing of women 's chins , ear-piercing , head-deformation , serpent-worship , the deluge myth and couvade — quite an assortment !
16 The horror depicted in Kafka 's Metamorphosis , in which a man awakens to discover that he has become a large insect , invites comparison with the norms of women 's existence — her passages from childhood to puberty , from mature womanhood to menopause and old age ; her experience of pregnancy .
17 Since Edinburgh is the focus of this study , the context will be a Scottish one : there are many similarities between the profiles of women 's employment north and south of the border , but they are not identical .
18 I 'm very glad to see that there 's quite a lot of nurses here , and I presume that quite a lot of those are women nurses , and I think that this is terribly important , and I think a useful thing with this new service could do is to go out and talk for instance to the meetings of women 's organisations , to old peoples ' clubs in the afternoon , and actually ask people what they would like , and get them talking in a nice informal way , rather than waiting for somebody to let them know what they think , because I do n't think they 're going to get it .
19 Where is a sociological account of the relative importance attached to these areas in the totality of women 's experience ?
20 Many feminists , by contrast , see the home as predominantly a back region for a man returning home from work : one where he can be himself , and largely at the expense of women 's autonomy and escape .
21 Like Cobbett , many suffragettes would have said that it was not so much the vote for its own sake that they sought as the improvements in the status and conditions of women which they believe would be achieved as the result of women 's enfranchisement .
22 The perception of women 's inability to take on managerial positions are almost universal .
23 If I use the analogy of women 's fashion , it is not that all the women in the western world suddenly decided one morning to cut a foot or more off all their dresses and to appear to a shocked and/or delighted male world in mini-skirts .
24 She argued that the Bulletin of March 1992 , in recognising the role of religion in the formation of group identities , was colluding with the oppression of women 's rights .
25 During both World Wars less was made of the effect of women 's work on childbearing and childrearing .
26 The effect of women 's work on the distribution of domestic tasks within households will be a further important focus on research .
27 Yael Even examines the images of women 's subjugation on the ‘ Loggia dei Lanze ’ sculpture court in Florence .
28 Most , but not all , bear the images of women 's faces .
29 The Womens Artist Slide Library is pleased to announce that it has succeeded in retaining its Arts Council funding for the publication of Women 's Art Magazine and has been offered financial assistance towards the running of the organisation over the next year .
30 The exception to this has been the work of Women 's Aid groups and the National Women 's Aid Federation , who have consistently and successfully f ought for battered women 's rights to housing in cases of domestic violence .
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